Enhancing the Safety of Medical Personel Through the Use of Modern Technology

Security of a society is related to the level of its health which largely depends on the level
of professional education of medical staff whose task is to help a person in life-threatening
situations. Life-threatening situations include among others acute cardiac failure or renal
failure. One of the methods to improve health condition of patients with these medical
problems is intravenous treatment with dopamine administered by an infusion pump.
Medical staff is responsible for proper programming of a pump so that it gives a patient
the appropriate dose. Introduction of modern technology to training programme
can facilitate the process of learning how to programme an automatic infusion pump.
The article describes an example of a simple computer programme created on the basis
of free software which is GeoGebra and shared as HTML pages. The prepared learning
resource does not require from its receivers any programming skills or special software.